Jimmy Boswell

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Jimmy Boswell
Personal information
Full name James Boswell
Date of birth (1922-03-13)13 March 1922
Place of birth Chester, England
Date of death 25 May 2010(2010-05-25) (aged 88)
Place of death Stafford, England
Position(s)
Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Chester 0 (0)
Sheffield Wednesday (wartime guest)
1946–1958 Gillingham[1] 470 (6)
1958–1959 Gravesend & Northfleet
1959–1961 Tonbridge
1961–? Canterbury City
Managerial career
1966 Gillingham (caretaker)
Chatham Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4/10/2008

James Boswell (13 March 1922 – 25 May 2010) was an English professional footballer. He played for Gillingham from 1946 until 1958, making 342 appearances in the English Football League, and appeared in more FA Cup matches than any other player in the club's history.

Career

Born in

George Forrester, Hughie Russell and Vic Hole.[3]

Boswell missed only two matches during the 1946–47 season as Gillingham won the Kent League championship by a margin of one point.[4] The following season the club played in the Southern Football League and Boswell was again a regular as the team finished in second place.[5] In the 1948–49 season Gillingham won the Southern League championship.[6] By the time the club was elected back into the English Football League in 1950 Boswell had played over 100 times, and had become the team's captain.[7] He remained one of the club's most consistent players until 1958, playing over 40 times in each season to take his total number of appearances to more than 500.[8] He also played 36 times in the FA Cup, a club record.[2]

At the end of the

Chatham,[3] before moving to Stafford
to be nearer relatives, where he died in 2010.

References

  1. ^ Comprises 2 Kent League appearances, 126 Southern League appearances and 342 Football League appearances
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-7524-2243-X
    .
  3. ^ a b c d Triggs, Roger. The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. p. 62.
  4. ISBN 1-899468-20-X
    .
  5. ^ Brown, Tony. The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record. p. 57.
  6. ^ Brown, Tony. The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record. p. 58.
  7. ^ Brown, Tony. The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record. pp. 58–59.
  8. ^ Brown, Tony. The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record. pp. 60–67.
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